Dependency loops considered harmful?

[Jon Ciesla]

> On Wed, 3 Sep 2008 12:10:13 -0500 (CDT), Jon Ciesla wrote:
>
>> > For example, why games data depend on binaries?
>>
>> So that if we try to upgrade the version of the binaries and not the
>> data,
>> it will fail.
>
> Unconvincing.
>
> Why? Because the game program pkg could require a specific version of
> the data pkg to achieve the same. If game version gets bumped, dep
> would break, since you would need to update data pkg, too. Game requires
> compatible data. So far so good.
>
> However, if the data pkg requires the game pkg (versioned! or else it
> would not be strict enough for your needs), this only increases the
> risk that you need to bump'n'rebuild the data pkg if the game version
> is increased without needing any changed data. It's a superfluous
> dependency that only tries to enhance "yum remove" a bit.

How?  For game data, the convention is to require on name and version, but
not release.  If new data is required, it will change the version.  If
not, we only increment the binary rpm's release, so the data rpm matches
on version and needs no rebuild.

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